On her new single, “Seasick,” multi-instrumentalist and sound conjurer Wendy DuMond, recording with the evocative moniker Bog Witch, conjures a beautifully chilling meditation on environmental ruin and the ancient power beneath the waves. Produced by Wendy, mastered by Sid Hagan, and more than a track, it’s an emotional surge of sound and significance.
Written with an oddball assortment of ukulele, autoharp, washboard, synths, and even real whale echolocation, DuMond creates a soundscape that sounds like it could have been dragged from the ocean floor. Rounding out the spectral magic is the eerie wail of a musical saw, played by Nikos Giousef, that hovers like a ghost wind over the track’s darker undercurrents.
In “Seasick,” a sea witch, a mythic avatar of the ocean’s wrath and grief, awakens to find her waters befouled by human negligence. But she is the ocean. It’s a beautiful and heart-rending lament, its theme repeated in ethereal vocals strained under heavy-handed instrumentation. This is protest music soaked in saltwater and folklore. DuMond whispers with gravity. The song rises slow, tidal, and inexorable. Every note here feels intentional, every sound a ripple from something ancient and wounded. On “Seasick,” Bog Witch has crafted a contemporary myth swathed in analog tones and ambient terror.
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